Higgs Boson Search

It's an interesting coincidence that two articles having to do with the First Amendment's freedom of religion clause recently appeared in The Sun.

The simpler one was about a lady complaining her freedom of religion was being violated by county officials offering prayers before their meetings ("As Carroll debates prayer, founding fathers' faith comes into focus," March 29).

The somewhat more complicated article was about a physicist's finding of a particle smaller than the smallest one known to exist since the 1960s ("Documentary follows...

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